Amazon just let me know they’re getting an early start with their Black Friday sales. Thought I’d let you know.
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Yesterday’s entertainment
Bought 3 CDs (Violent Femmes, Talking Heads, and Supertramp) and watched a DVD (Little Miss Sunshine).
The movie was completely unplanned and a pleasant surprise, showing Steve Carell in (I think) an atypical role. Importing the CDs into iTunes caused some frustration because the CD drive in the MacBook Pro consistently spit out the Talking [...]
DRM (is) for Dummies?
Three items recently caught my attention that I seemed worth sharing here:
At Boing Boing (which I’ve sadly removed from my list of newsfeeds a while ago, I couldn’t quite keep up) Cory Doctorow rants quite extensively about Amazon Unbox. I don’t think there’s a single point on which I disagree with him.
Via Tweakers, a [...]
Snakes on a plane
This tune has been stuck in my head since Friday evening when we watched the credits after the movie, so it seems only reasonable that I would share that joy with you:
Enjoy!
An Inconvenient Showtime
You know, I quite agree that people should go and watch Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, but unless it’s going to be shown somewhere somewhat closer… I’ll have to wait for the DVD or so.
According to the movie’s own listing the closest it’s going to get anytime soon is in Lawrence (in July), Wichita [...]
Small world
I’m watching Blind Fury (1989), a movie that I quite enjoy and know mostly because it has Rutger Hauer in it, a Dutch actor.
Then the character Frank Devereaux comes into the picture and I burst out laughing… hey, I know him, except 16 years older!
Had dinner yet?
Jaws, like you’ve never seen it before.
Friday entertainment (4)
Better late than not at all?
Last Friday we saw Serenity in the theatre, the movie based on the Firefly TV-series.
It probably helped that we’ve watched and enjoyed the series, but given that, the movie was entertaining from start to finish!
Beforehand I had been wondering if Ron Glass was going to make an appearance, because I’d [...]
Friday entertainment (3)
For our not-so-regular escape out of this world we went to see The 40 Year Old Virgin this evening, with Steve Carrell. Good entertainment with perhaps a few hmm, okay kind of moments and a highly amusing (to us anyway) ending.
Afterwards we rented High Fidelity with John Cusack and a few other familiar faces. [...]
Friday entertainment (2)
Our entertainment last night was in the form of the movie spin of Bewitched. While we were entertained, certainly, the end seemed a bit of an anti-climax and the storyline a bit thin. The cast was certainly not lacking with various big names in it, but that didn’t change it. [...]